Example sentences of "[noun] though [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mind though it be apprised of all the doctrines of the sects , knows nothing and is bewildered by the doctrine of love . |
| 2 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 3 | I look in occasionally for a drink and a chat though he 's getting more and more difficult to talk to . |
| 4 | The origin of the duty is to be found at common law though it is reinforced by certain provisions in the Partnership Act . |
| 5 | Now these visitors were dressed in simple shepherds ' tunics though they were fashioned in stripes of crimson satin and cloth of gold . |
| 6 | S. Stephen 's Cathedral in Vienna still has a Romanesque wing though it was built in the mid-thirteenth century . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , exactly — ’ she hrumphed some more — ‘ I said she was still going to be in Maidstone for a few days though we were thinking of moving her to a private hospital . |
| 8 | It was n't a warm day though it was meant to be spring , and she felt colder thinking of him standing about in the mud of a building site . |
| 9 | The other issues deserve their own extensive studies though they are referred to in passing elsewhere in this book . ) |
| 10 | Mm daddy wo n't be out for a while though he 's watching Terminator |
| 11 | A total of 94 riders remain in the race with four stages to go.Two dropped out yesterday , Australian Rob McLachlan submitting to flu and South African Steven Wolhuter being admitted to Shrewsbury Hospital for a check-up though he was released later . |
| 12 | — One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women . |
| 13 | The novelistic density of Andrien 's film makes the well-meant Canadian picture Bye Bye Blues ( director , Anne Wheeler ) , which touches on somewhat related themes though it is set during the war , seem merely novelettish . |
| 14 | in a sense though you 're putting a lot more emphasis on the Party . |
| 15 | He then made a full written confession and was then shown the notes made of the earlier oral admissions ( which he refused to sign ; the police however failed to record the refusal in the pocket book though it was recorded in the custody record . ) |
| 16 | Botanist though he was proved to be , nevertheless he stayed . |
| 17 | My only rather weighty problem is the fact that I speak very little French though I am learning , both at French lessons and at my Medau classes . |
| 18 | It preceded the Beecham by some five years and , unless I am much mistaken , never appeared in this country at the time though it was included in an anthology RCA issued on LP ( 6/70 — nla ) . |
| 19 | The policy at which the League had arrived reflected the discontent with Parliamentary methods which dominated the ILP and the Communist Party though it was expressed in less revolutionary and more " managerial " terms . |
| 20 | The very sight of the sign at the head of the platform , shabby and tourist and third class though it was compared with that of the Golden Arrow at the other end of the station , was enough to raise her to a state she had never reached before , and as the train moved south , she sat in her seat and stared out of the window as though in a trance . |
| 21 | The research is conceived in two parts though they are inter-related . |
| 22 | ‘ You are strange to these parts though you were born near here , for Wrath is not so many miles to the north . |